CREE values local ability to lead. This includes future capacity found in the form of youth. Foremost among this is the ability to receive a good education because this structures your ability to lead your community into the future. For close to a year now CREE Philippines has been working in the Babuyan Islands on ground-breaking biological studies of humpback whales, while simultaneously developing guidelines for sustainable whale eco-tourism and boating techniques to minimize human-cetacean conflict.